looked like the jerry springer show in russia.ussian tycoon hit another billionaire in the face during a talk show on friday. they were discussing ways russia could avoid problems from a new global economic crisis. the billionaire who threw the punch said he would rather beat somebody instead of talking about the economy. join the club. >>> hearing gets under way in florida in the death of a seaworld trainer. killer whale drowned dawn brancheau in 2010. graphic video of her being dragged could be presented at the hearing. her parents fought to keep the images private, but a judge ruled last week, they could be used. >>> cbs news "moneywatch" on a monday. >>> lion king roars again this time in 3d. ashley morrison has that and more in new york. good morning to you, ashley. >> reporter: good morning, terrell. asian market took a beating today on more fears about u.s.'s debt crisis. hang seng lost 3% while japan's hand sending was closed. today the wall street gets the latest on the housing markets. for the week, dow gained almost 5%,

it is doubtful the new springer influence on house republicans will improve much the general tenor of the house of representatives. local new york television was filled today with man and woman on the street, explanations of yesterday's election. they were all minor variations on an anti-obama theme. >> i'm not sure, but i'm really disappointed in obama. i was hoping much more. >> joining me now, democratic congressman from new york, elliot engel. thank you very much for joining me tonight, congressman. >> my pleasure, lawrence. >> congressman, you have an office, a district office in the bronx. what are you hearing in your bronx office? is it similar to what we were hearing all over local new york television today about new york democratic voters disappointed in president obama and expressing it as they did yesterday by voting for a kind of loony republican candidate for congress? >> well, i think a lot of it is the dissatisfaction with the economy. people are scared. they don't see any improvement in the economy. there are a lot of democrats who say to me, tell the president to be m

seat went to republican newcomer bob turner, a retired television executive who created the jerry springer show. he beat democratic state assemblyman david wepran. mark amade defeated kate marshall. up in massachusetts, elizabeth warren who set up the consumer financial protection bureau kicked off her campaign for u.s. senate in south boston today greeting commuters at a train stop. warren is a harvard professor, long-time advocate for the middle class. she gained a reputation as wall street's nemesis after the financial meltdown and faces a crowded democratic primary field on the way to challenging republican senator scott brown. nbc's kelly o'donnell has been watching all of this and is with us from capitol hill. kelly, on the congressional races, the party that loses the seats always says, well, this was just a local election. the party that gains them says, well, it was obviously a referendum on the president. >> reporter: that was exactly the script today, brian. and those two new republican house members will be sworn in. their parties say it is a bad omen for the president and demo

the new congressman is 75-year-old former cable-tv executive, bob turner, creator of "the jerry springer show." >> we have had it with an irresponsible fiscal policy that endangers everyone of our social safety networks. we have had it with your treatment of israel. [applause] >> congressman steve israel of new york, who is trying to get democrats elected, is trying to play this one down. >> it is not pretty good about what is going to happen -- not predictive of what is going to happen. >> that is what democrats said after scott round shellacked -- after scott brown at shellacked martha coakley for the seat held by ted kennedy. it republican also one in nevada. what do these elections tell you, charles? "conduct unbecoming of a congressman"? you archimedean bid this is the canary in the coal mine. on the issue of the economy and obama, it is a real message that democrats are in trouble nationwide. >> democrats and republicans are in trouble nationwide. the electorate is furious with both sides. 27% want to throw everybody out, 28% are frustrated. 30% wish they would compromise. -- 38% w

in 2000 i received an award from you from captain ed springer for all the stuff i've done in this community. i love this community. this district is awesome, this theater. presidio, middle school. some of the kids. i currently work with the friends of mountain lake park. i do all the dog waste bags. that's what i do now. i was deputy sheriff for 10 years. i had an advance post. what i'm here tonight is they found my application for patrol special. it was going to be 30 days for them to approve it and it's been over one year. this is my anly days and this award is attached to that and i'm still not a patrol special. i've asked the captain to apoint me. i think i'm worthy of appointment. this thing has gone on and on and on. i would just like the commission to direct or encourage the chief to appoint me. i've been hired by the beat owner of the castro district and recently we had a gentlemen zrsh gentleman 56 years old get beat up, bashed by guys with baseball battles. this is my application which they said they never received. >> thank you, mr. gray. next speaker? >> i think i can talk right

jerry springer is here, the former mayor of cincinnati. billy dean also joins us. and chief of brightbart tv. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: i don't know if i should do this, but i'll go to jerry first on this. i know you agree with president obama. but aren't the people who have been successful in this nation already paying their fair share? they make up the majority of the taxes coming into this country to begin with. >> well, obviously wealthy people pay more because they have more. you're not going to get a lot of money out of poor people or lower income people. so that's true. i don't think the question is fair share and that kind of thing. what amazes me is we're in tough economic times. certainly just taxing people that make millions of dollars isn't going to solve the deficit problem. but why are we getting so bent out of shape because people -- and i'm one of the lucky ones -- if you ask me to pay a little more money, why not? i love this country. we are so fine to send our sons and daughters halfway around the world to fight and die in

dan springer is taking a closer look. he is live in seattle.re seeing for example, that remodels are up because people are looking for more space because they are literally stuck in their first home, stuck because they owe more than its worth. a recent study by corelogic said 10.9 million mortgages are underwater and 2.5 million have less than equity. 25% of all homeowners are in negative or near negative mortgages. they can't get enough out of the sale of their home to buy the next one. that is the situation georgia and her husband are in. they bought a two bedroom condo, their starter home in 2006. now it is worth half what they paid. the plan had been to buy a second home a few years ago but that's not an option. >> it means delaying any kind of growing of the family. it means, you know, we don't get to have thanksgiving dinner over here yet in the tiny condo. so that big sit-down dining room we envisioned that will not happen for a while. >> reporter: according to zillow home values nationwide have a median drop of 35%. that along withow in

dan springer live in seattle on this. what do the numbers mean there, dan?g. >> reporter: it means a lot of the foreclosures are now moving. it is a little bit of good news in an otherwise very bad housing market. we got news yesterday that the housing starts were down in august from july. so still a very tough market. we know millions of homeowners are underwater. the latest corelogic study came out last week. it showed 10.9 million mortgages are you know water. which mean the homeowners owe more than what they're worth. you add in another 2.4 million homes have 5% or less equity. that is 27.5% of all homes where the owners own more than what they can sell it for. many negative homes are owned by first-time home buyers who put very little down before the housing crash. she and her husband paid $600,000 for a two-bedroom condo. it is worth half that much and making all kinds of life changes for them. >> means delaying any kind of growing of the family. it means, you know, we don't get to have thanksgiving dinner over here yet in this little tiny condo. that

thank you very much, dan springer in seattle.: there are calls for a new strate fight mexican drug violence by treating the cartels as criminal insurgents, maybe like the taliban. some of the worst violence taking place along the border threatens the lives of american citizens, so should we do that? our next guest says in order to fight the battle, it's going to take a counterinsurgency strategy. gary shipman is managing director of the chertoff group and a former senior executive at the department of homeland security. so you're thinking we need something like a general petraeus approach to going after these cartels? >> jon, we clearly need an all-of-government approach. the key question is, you know, what is the nature of violence taking place in mexico? is it random violence related to small-time criminals or big time organized violence with a broader political purpose? and i think it's clearly big business taking place among the drug cartels in mexico, and the violence has a purpose. there's a grand, strategic purpose, and we

dan springer is in las vegas. martha: coming up, we'll talk to former reagan adviser art laffer on romney's plan, president obama's plan and what you need to watch for in both of these plans, very specifically. that's coming up. fox is teaming up with google to host a presidential debate, when is it, september 22nd, in orlando, it's going to be the big splitical debate event of september. you can submit your own questions that will be asked to the candidates. it's the very first time you'll be able to vote on which questions you want to hear them answer. so this is going to add to the fun in a big way. foxnews.com, and scroll down to the spotlight section, click on the gop presidential debate, there's a link there, you can submit your question, click on the ask a question tab. that's a good name for it! *t write us a question or submit a video question if you're fancy, technologically, you can put a question in there, and give them a thumbs up or numbers down. it's hosted by fox news and google, september 22nd, be

gregg: dan springer, thank very much.school time is still happening right now, so this story caught our eyes as sort of a fun thing to take a look at on this thursday. hazing is a way of life for rookie relief pictures. a guy would need some steely nerves to endure this, and this is happening right now in the baseball league. [laughter] girly backpacks are apparently in. hannah montana, dora the explorer. hello kitty. i did see an r2d2 backpack as well. you name it, some of these major leaguers are wearing it. that's kind of cute. the baseball league doesn't have an issue with this, quote-unquote, hazing as long as it maintains a spirit of innocence. and as you can see the angel wings, a spirit of innocence, indeed. if you're going to a baseball game and you see this, it's just a little hazing of relief pitchers. we don't do that for new correspondents at fox news, but -- gregg: yeah. maybe a barbie or a dora the explorer. i've been known to borrow my daughter's backpacks. jenna: really? gregg: on a recent vacation i was

dan springer.e are now finding out a private satellite communications company, bid for a major u.s. military project and now an air force general saying he was pressured to change his comments about that project in order to fast-track the plan. what is behind all of this? plus... martha: look at that. major explosion shut down a major city, 300,000 people, and you do not want to breathe this stuff in, folks. we'll tell you what it is. bill: plus, pat robertson raising a lot of eyebrows by saying divorce is acceptable if... if someone is suffering from alzheimer's. >> this is an ethical question that is beyond my ability to tell you but i wouldn't put a guilt trip on you if you decided that you had to have companionship and you are lonely and asking for some companionship. bill: father jonathan morris in today about what he thinks about that. bill: toxic plume of smoke, bringing a city to a stand still. this is not what you want. watch here... man oh, man! firefighters saying they gained control ove

back to dan springer in las vegas as we hear more from mitt rommy. -- romney. jon huntsman is coming out with his jobs plan as well. the former governor, our guest on "happening now" noon tomorrow time right here on fox news. jon: be interesting to hear what he has to say. some brand new poll numbers showing voter december content -- discontent in this country. according to the latest, only 19% of adults in this country think america is is headed in the right direction. 73% believe we are on the wrong track. so what can president obama say in his big jobs speech to congress this week that might turn things around? with us now, former democratic senator from arkansas blanche lincoln. senator lincoln, you were on the finance committee, the commerce committee as well. i mean, you know about business and how it works in this country. what should the president say, what do you expect him to say? >> well, i'm not sure what he'll say, but i hope he'll reach out to others. i think he needs to find common ground. what most people find discontent with in washington is th

phil with jerry springer's audience. i attack nobody.warm and fuzzy and will have able. >> sean: that's how you are in real life. >> and i'm the voice of sanity and you're the voice of hannity. [ laughing ] >> sean: time to check in with greta. where are you back in d.c. tucker you guys friends again or is it personal? >> greta: we are communicating a bit. we'll work it out. >> sean: i'll offer this program, if you guys want to come on this week, i'll be the peacemaker and put you both on and see if we can't come to a resolution. >> greta: it is not a mary of making peace. we have a very different idea on what is appropriate to describe a woman. >> sean: no, i'm saying you didn't resolve it last night. >> greta: it went off the rails. >> sn: i'll be judge judy. >> greta: it went off the rails. there's always sort of a drama behind the drama. any way, we'll work it out, don't worry. all is well. we have a lot tonight. we have senator mccain, senator coburn. louise story of the "new york times". governor daniels from andian that, he's back

almost looks like an episode 0 out of jerry springer but it is crazy. would think with all the money they have they could get it together. this guy is russia's media mogul, aleksandr lebedev. the comments he's hearing from his business rival, right there in the black, as we can see, sergey polonsky, just don't sit so well with him. the hee heated debate is on the global kmik crisis. the debate is heated and heated and he loses his cool, aleksandr lebedev in the gray and socks him and his opponent fool falls to the ground. you would think, he is one of the richest men in the world believe it or not. >> good tv. >>> finally talk about october fest. we hear a lot about october fest but this is the mother of all october fests. >> this is the largest beer festival in the world and we are expected to see 7 million tourists at this thing. how much beer do you think they will consume over this three-week extrav ganz is a. >> i was shocked to find out. there is a website and they estimate 6 million liters, don. that's a lot of beer. >> that picture made me thirs

against a guy who has never held public office, who actually was one of the creators of "the jerry springeruld have trouble beating. >> it has been more conservative in recent years. barack obama when he ran for president got only 55% of the vote in the congressional district. this particular person ran against anthony weiner this past november, kind of got a head start in the district and got 40% of the vote. so he's still not clearing 50% and we have other polls that show, you know, much closer and myself ahead as well. so, you know, again, i'm pretty confident we're getting our message out the last couple days which are not reflected in those polls. there's a clear difference between us. my opponent wants to cut the federal budget by 35%. he totally wants to eliminate the department of education, the department of agriculture. he calls epa officials wackos. you know, i'm clearly, you know, standing for preserving social security and medicare, creating jobs. i support, you know, the basic principles in the president's proposal on jobs. i'd like to see middle class tax cuts and small busin

he's an executive and is responsible for help getting the jerry springer show produced way back in the. >> that's his badge of honor. >> but this race has really turned and this has become about weprin and they put him on the defensive early. you have an orthodox jew losing in a jewish community. >> losing to a catholic. and they have been using the mosque, the ground zero, the controversy about having a mosque and the fact of the matter is it wasn't necessarily a mosque, it was a muslim community center and it was going to be within a stone's throw of ground zero. >> that's not an -- as a republican that's a pretty hot button issue but special elections are all about getting out your base. >> what is the base? the base is what? is it a pretty -- is this coming down to israel? >> well, look, bob turner is getting a third of democrats in this race. so as nathan mentioned, you know, we're getting out -- democrats are trying to get out their vote, but if one out of every three voters is going for turner, then who knows what their turnout operation is like. >> nathan, let's move quickly to

dan springer has more live from seattle. >> reporter: studies show that death penalty cases cost twotimes more with life without parole cases. leading many prosecutors to seek the death penalty less often. we know sentences down 60% in the last decade rising cost is a factor. in seattle there are two death penalty cases and the legal bill combined 4 million dollars, neither has gone to trial yet. in one the defendants confessed and said they wanted to be executed. prosecutors say defense lawyers are driving up the cost looking for mitigating circumstances. >> there isn't a lot of oversight, there isn't a cap. they are allowed to spend. they are given a blank cheque. >> reporter: small counties are especially likely to not seek the death penalty. there's an effort in california from a group called taxpayers for justice seeking to abolish capital punishment because it is too expensive. over 35 years, four billion sent, 700 on death row, 13 executions. there have been attempts to put caps on the a.m. defense can spend but they've gone nowhere. they say don't blame them the stakes are hi

. >> reporter: turner is best known as the creator of "the jerry springer show," and is a newcomer to politics. but the shockwaves of his victory extand far beyond brooklyn and queens. democrat lost because of no small part because of how unpopular president obama is, even here, in a district that he had won by double digits in 2008. former new york mayor, ed koch, a democrat, crossed party lines to support the republican. saying, he wanted to send president obama a message. >> mr. president, listen to us. >> reporter: some of new york's biggest named democrats held the seat over the years. including chuck schumer, geraldine ferraro, and most recently anthony weiner, who resigned in disgrace in june, of sending inappropriate photos of himself to women on twitter. and republicans prevailed in the only other special election last ght. scoring a victory in nevada by a 22-point landslide. george? >> democrats say that was a district held by republicans in the last election. but this new york seat, jon, this is troublesome. it could spell trouble for the president, you say beyond new york,

dan springer is live in seattle with more on what is going on there, dan. >> reporter: yeah, jon the violence broke out at the port of long view in southern washington state, the police chef there telling me that 500 longshoreman broke threw a quit and vandalized a brand-new grain terminal there for two hours. six security guards were hold up in their shack, too afraid for their safety to come out. the flash followed picketing wednesday afternoon that saw the arrest of 19 people and may have been sparked by this photo who shows the president of the international longshorema the ud the place at 4:po in the morning they broke windows, cut rail car brake lines and dumped about 20 tons of grain. cops who did arrive made no arrests. they were so outnumbered. they hope to use security tape to identify some of the vandals. it's believed most of the longshoreman work in the ports of tacoma and seattle and were showing solidarity with the employees in long view. you had four west coast ports shut down by the labor dispute. we can tell you that things are back to normal today, all the ports ar

that's russia for jerry springer, by the way! now the guy who got punched is threatening legal action. we'll see whether or not the courts take that up, huh? >> martha: the vladimir putin, macho style brand of deal w-g the problem! bill: next time they'll do it without their shirts on, be perfect for putin! martha: while wrestling a bear! >>> this is part of the ongoing series of america's third war, nearly one year ago, tiffany hartley says a day of fun and jet skiing on a texas lake turned to horror for her and honor husband who was allegedly shot to death by drug cartel members right in front of her. today, she will testify before lawmakers at a congressional forum on border security and kris gutierrez joins us live from brownsville with more on this. you spoke exclusively to tiffany last night. what did she say about this? >> martha, we should point out, this is tiffany's first trip back to this region since her husband was presumably murdered last year, she now lives with her parents in colorado. we should point out her husb

i mean, we're not -- i love jerry springer. he's a friend of mine.at? i'm not going to cross that. i'm not going there. >> i don't get into -- i don't get into religion anymore. i don't think it's -- i think racism is passe, in terms of that kind of violent conflict on the set. geraldo set that stage many years ago. so, we don't do that. >> let's talk about connie. >> okay. >> how many years now have you been together? >> gee whiz. 27. 28th anniversary coming up. it's amazing. she -- you talk about my career. i mean, to me, she is -- she's the best of everything involved in television, journalism. she set the stage. she broke down barriers that were there for a long time before she came along, in terms of women, and in terms of asian women. and you know, i started out as mr. chung. and i will be mr. chung forever. >> i don't think so. but i will ask you this. as you speak about her, your eyes light up. what would you say the secret is to a lasting romance? >> connie has always said that the secret to our marriage has been don't spend too much time wi

unthinkable, you coming out of nowhere to be the next congressman from queens, new york, or finding jerry springer hit like you did when you were a cable tv titan. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. who by the way was a politician first. all right. bob turner, congressman now from new york. coming up at the top of the hour, the white house's new web site meant to stop attacks is under attackivity. michelle malkin explains how the site was turned into a joke. then call off the search. the so-called white house party crasher and party crashers have not been kidnapped. she's just on a special journey. with the guitarist from the band journey. she went willingly. [ ben harper's "amen omen" playing ] we believe doing the right thing never goes unnoticed. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? ♪ [ male announcer ] what is the future of fuel? the debate is over. ♪ lexus hybrid drive technology is designed to optimize any fuel source on the planet. even those we don't use yet. because when you pursue perfection, you don't just engineer a future-proof hybrid system. you engineeamazing.

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